Defining Quotes - Page 14

• I think the most important CEO task is defining the course that the business will take over the next five or so years. You have to have the ability to see what the business environment might be like a long way out, not just over the coming months. You need to be able to both set a broad direction, and also to take particular decisions along the way that make that broad direction unfold correctly.

  Chris Corrigan

  Business, Thinking, Years

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• If there is a defining aspect of UNC women's soccer, and its success, it is what we call the competitive cauldron. It is the pinnacle of our program. The great part about the cauldron is that it fosters a quality we can all possess. It isn't a talent we are born with. Competitive drive is not governed by innate ability, but by self-discipline and desire

  Anson Dorrance

  Soccer, Volleyball, Self

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• Modern societies accepted the treasures and the power offered them by science. But they have not accepted - they have scarcely even heard - its profounder message: the defining of a new and unique source of truth, and the demand for a thorough revision of ethical premises, for a complete break with the animist tradition, the definitive abandonment of the 'old covenant', the necessity of forging a new one. Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the riches they owe to science, our societies are still trying to live by and to teach systems of values already blasted at the root by science itself.

  Jacques Monod

  Unique, Roots, Trying

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• [God] is perfect not only insofar as He is absolute perfection, defining perfection in Himself and from His singular existence and total perfection, but also because He is far beyond being so. He sets a boundary to the boundless and in His total unity He rises above all limitation. He is neither contained nor comprehended by anything. He reaches out to everything and beyond everything and does so with unfailing generosity and unstinted activity.

  Pope Dionysius

  Christian, Perfect, Generosity

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• Using less of the Earth’s resources more efficiently and productively in a circular economy and making the transition from carbon-based fuels to renewable energies are defining features of the emerging economic paradigm. In the new era, we each become a node in the nervous system of the biosphere.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Energy, Transition, Fuel

  Jeremy Rifkin (2014). “The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism”, p.14, Palgrave Macmillan

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• The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody - like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger - and I thought, 'That can be me.' So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn't realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Men, Funny Things, Work Out

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• Curiosity, wonder, and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers...Restlessness and discontent are vital things... Intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways less intense emotions can never do.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Teacher, Passion, Curiosity

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• Press on. Your defining moment may arrive just when you feel surrounded by adversity.

  David Cottrell

  Adversity, May, Defining Moments

  David Cottrell (2013). “Tuesday Morning Coaching and The Magic Question (EBOOK BUNDLE)”, p.24, McGraw Hill Professional

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• At times you have to fight. No way around it. At some point, every one of us is confronted with danger or injustice. How we choose to combat that challenge is often life-defining. You can face difficulties head-on, or run from them, or ignore them until they consume you. But no one escapes conflict. No one.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Running, Fighting, Challenges

  Bill O'Reilly (2006). “Culture Warrior”, p.1, Three Rivers Press

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• The lacy fight was a career defining fight.

  Joe Calzaghe

  Motivation, Fighting, Careers

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• The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.

  Abraham Maslow

  Spiritual, Self Esteem, Essence

  Hung-Min Chiang, Abraham Harold Maslow (1969). “The healthy personality: readings”

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• Instead of setting goals, seek defining moments. Those are the real tests, because you have to be willing to fail in a pressure situation in front of other people.

  Hugh Jackman

  Real, People, Goal

  FaceBook post by Hugh Jackman from Aug 28, 2012

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• One key and defining attribute of God that does not appear in any other world religion or system is the biblical use of the term "Father." Over 70 times in the New Testament alone, God is described as "Father" to His children. No major world religion describes the relationship between its creator and its adherents in terms of a father.

  Ergun Caner

  Children, Father, Biblical

  Ed Hindson, Ergun Caner (2008). “The Popular Encyclopedia of Apologetics: Surveying the Evidence for the Truth of Christianity”, p.254, Harvest House Publishers

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• Other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Destiny, People, Opinion

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• I think one of the great disasters (in military history) is the way that the Second World War has become the defining reference point for every crisis and every conflict.

  Antony Beevor

  Military, War, Thinking

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• Disability is a characteristic like hair color; it's not a defining principle.

  Jean Driscoll

  Leadership, Sports, Hair

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• More than sixty years ago, mathematical logicians, by defining precisely the concept of an algorithm, gave content to the ancient human idea of an effective calculation. Their definitions led to the creation of the digital computer, an interesting example of thought bending matter to its ends.

  David Berlinski

  Years, Ideas, Interesting

  David Berlinski (2000). “The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World”, Houghton Mifflin

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• I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Song, Kids, Simple

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• The one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the one thing it is only, separating and defining it more and more, making it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive - non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective. the only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.

  Ad Reinhardt

  Art, Years, Fifty

  Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.53, Univ of California Press

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• So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true.

  Wim Wenders

  Europe, Somewhere Else, Bored

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• An institution which is financed by a budget - or which enjoys a monopoly which the customer cannot escape - is rewarded for what it deserves rather than what it earns. It is paid for 'good intentions' and 'programs'. It is paid for not alienating important constituents rather than satisfying any one group. It is misdirected by the way it is being paid into defining performance and results as what will produce the budget rather than as what will produce contribution.

  Peter Drucker

  Important, Way, Groups

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• Black and White is essentially an abstract way to interpret and transform what one might refer to as reality. My purpose in taking photographs over the past forty years has ultimately been about defining myself. It has been fundamentally a psychological and existential journey.

  Roger Ballen

  Black And White, Past, Journey

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• So long as we insist upon defining our identities only in terms of our work, so long as we try to blind ourselves to the needs of our children and harden our hearts against them, we will continue to feel torn, dissatisfied, and exhausted…. The guilt we feel for neglecting our children is a byproduct of our love for them. It keeps us from straying too far from them, for too long. Their cry should be more compelling than the call from the office.

  Danielle Crittenden

  Children, Heart, Long

  Danielle Crittenden (2009). “What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Successful, Class, Use

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For in Asia and around the world, India is not simply emerging; India has already emerged. And it is my firm belief that the relationship between the United States and India - bound by our shared interests and values - will be one of the defining partnerships of the 21st century. This is the partnership I have come here to build. This is the vision that our nations can realise together.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Vision, Together

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